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Fatal Remedies

The Ironies of Social Intervention

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  • © 1981

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  1. Sam D. Sieber
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Theoretical and Political Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Problem in Perspective

      • Sam D. Sieber
      Pages 3-26

    3. Regressive Intervention in Contemporary Theory and Research

      • Sam D. Sieber
      Pages 27-53

  3. Conversion Mechanisms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-56
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    2. Functional Disruption

      • Sam D. Sieber
      Pages 57-79

    3. Exploitation

      • Sam D. Sieber
      Pages 80-107

    4. Goal Displacement

      • Sam D. Sieber
      Pages 108-118

    5. Provocation

      • Sam D. Sieber
      Pages 119-139

    6. Classification

      • Sam D. Sieber
      Pages 140-149

    7. Overcommitment

      • Sam D. Sieber
      Pages 150-164

    8. Placation

      • Sam D. Sieber
      Pages 165-181

  4. Summary and Implications for Theory and Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183
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    2. Summary

      • Sam D. Sieber
      Pages 185-192

    3. Implications for Social Theory

      • Sam D. Sieber
      Pages 193-203

    4. Implications for Policy

      • Sam D. Sieber
      Pages 204-216

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 217-234
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by Ronald G. Corwin What do the following have in common: regulatory agencies, magnet schools, a declining empire, puritan asceticism, plea bargaining, the recent tax revolt in California, the Boston Tea Party, the Vietnam War, public drinking halls during Prohibi­ tion, police entrapment, and Yosemite National Park on Labor Day weekend? If the answer is not readily apparent, read this engaging book. Dr. Sam Sieber makes a convincing case that harbored in a potpourri of such events are countless instances of how well-intentioned social interventions often produce harmful effects. Searching for a general framework that will force us to think of heretofore discrete events in new ways, he has chosen to use the term "intervention" in its broadest sense. His approach is a superb example of how serious schol­ arship can produce a new creative synthesis from familiar knowledge when the scholar is guided by a lively curiosity. The wide-ranging subject matter of this book provides a re­ freshing vision of social reform movements and programs. I think that Sieber has succeeded in doing what he set out to do: namely, to develop a general and inclusive typology for cl- ix x RONALD G. CORWIN sifying and interpreting the perverse effects of all kinds of social interventions. This is not merely another treatise on the "unintended effects" of purposeful action, however. As Dr.

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